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Saturday, June 13, 2009

I was giving Austin a haircut outside today so he'll be all handsome-like for his graduation on Monday. Clay came out and said, "Look Mom! I have armpit hair!"

I turned around to see this...

Yep, Clay scooped up the pile of hair from the garage floor and stuffed it under his armpits. A few minutes later, he ran inside and reemerged with this brand new hair cut...

Note the before and after pictures. Great new hairstyle, don't you think? Uh yeah. I asked him, "Clay, why did you cut your hair? Do you know how to cut hair? Did you go to beauty school to learn how to cut hair???"

To which I heard this reply, "You didn't go to beauty school to learn how to cut hair either."

That's too funny Dawn! Both of my boys, within days of each other, took their school scissors to their already buzzed hair and gave themselves little semi-bald patches up front. The Head Demon said he didn't want his 'fro growing back and the Demon-In-Training was trying to cut all the brown hair off to get to the blonde hair at the bottom. (He doesn't get that the SUN is turning his hair blonde). I think its just a summer madness gene that strikes all boys under the age of 15.

Dawn I've come to the conclusion the kids do things to see if they make it in to your next book LOL. Is Clay your only child to give him/herself (or a sibling) a haircut? If so you are very fortunate !

My daughter Jessi was an adorable child. Still is...when she was 7 years old, yes, I said a knowing, 7 year old child, cut her bangs right before school....and on my birthday .....oh I remember that day!!! Oh an guess what I was doing, while she was cutting...I was writing my blog on the compouter...Oy vey!

WHen my boys were 6 abd 4 the 6 year old gave his brother a haircut. WHen I asked him why, he told me they were playing robbers and Shaun's hair was showing to much under the hat and people would know who he was :)

When my daughter cut her bangs down to the scalp and the left side of her cute pageboy on the 3rd day of Kindergarten because "she wanted it to be long" (don't ask!), I thought that was bad. We had to brush forward all the hair from the back to cover the two inch wide bare spot where her bangs were (and were sweeping up Barbie hair and stuffed animal hair from her hair cutting rampage for days), but the worst case I ever saw was a girl in her gymnastics class a couple of years later.

This poor girl had waist length beautiful ringlets. Not only did she cut off most of her hair, but she had to have stitches in many places. Poor thing. She was so embarrassed.

Ohhh, the "funny" comebacks they throw at us! I told my 7 year old daughter that it was against the rules to have kids younger than her climb up on her bunk bed. She relplied (with much head wagging and attitude) "What?! It's rule in the United States?!"

Fake armpit hair and self haircuts? Are these the kinds of things I have to look forward to with my oh-so-sweet 7-month-old little boy? I guess if that's the worst, then I'll probably be lucky. And at the very least, entertained!